arpeggio
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Legend: I have this song called “Safe,” and there’s this one moment when I do this run and Sufjan has this arpeggio going the opposite direction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
McCombs can’t resist hopping through an occasional arpeggio, and Rumback’s drumming grows splashier and more insistent along the way, but the track is MacKay’s showcase.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
DaBaby and Ricch’s “Rockstar,” Billboard’s official 2020 Song of Summer, was the most bewitching of the bunch, built out of a moody guitar arpeggio gentle enough for a country record.
From Slate ● May 1, 2021
On the line, “I love you and you love me and that’s how it will always be and nothing else could ever mean a thing,” Mr. Bennett sings the line using a spiraling, ascending arpeggio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2018
They conduct the genome, thereby playing out its music—activating the viola at the fourteenth minute, a crash of cymbals during the arpeggio, a roll of drums at the crescendo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The fourth becomes a sophisticated lesson in arpeggios and the last, a fanciful passacaglia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
“Dancing on the Ceiling” does the opposite, starting with very verbose Art Tatum-style arpeggios in the verse but then mellowing out in the chorus, and quoting “All This and Heaven Too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
It’s synthpop swells and arpeggios feel like a pure-white LCD sunrise over a William Gibson landscape.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
Released in the run-up to Future’s highly anticipated second album, “Honest,” “Karate Chop” features a kaleidoscopic mix of sparkling arpeggios and buzzing synths.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
Still, I practice chords and arpeggios, scales and phrases, until finally, she takes me deeply into the lesson for the day—a Mozart concerto this time.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Vocabulary lists containing arpeggio
The Joy Luck Club
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Music - Middle School
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"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
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